Readers of The Argus have come up trumps following our appeal for help to find five missing statues.

The Victorian era statues have disappeared from the Victoria Gardens in Brighton and we asked for your help in tracking them down.

We can reveal the mystery is at least a fifth solved as one of the statues has been found at nearby Stanmer Park.

Brighton cartoonist Alan Wickham told us of its whereabouts.

He said: "It's at the back of Stanmer Park lying on its side covered with undergrowth.

"The reason I know it's there is because I was involved in a project there a few years ago."

The statues, presented to the city in 1887 by Sir Edward Sassoon, are said to have depicted five allegorical figures representing Morning, Welcome, Fidelity, Truth and Night.

All that remains are two plinths, at opposite ends of the gardens. Two other plinths went to Preston Park, where they remain.

We thought the other, which went to Wild Park, was also missing until Mike Griffin, a former director of parks and recreation with Brighton Borough Council, emailed to say it was definitely there and took a picture for us.

We were also contacted by Anthony McIntosh, of Brighton University's school of historical and critical studies. He is involved in the creation of a list of all public art in Sussex. He said: "The statues from Victoria Gardens originated from the Park Lane mansion of Barney Barnato. Sassoon bought the mansion on Barnato's death and gifted them to Brighton. I have not yet been able to trace what happened to them and so will be very interested if your call for information has any success."

The Regency Society sent some superb pictures from its webmaster Duncan McNeill.

They depict what Victoria Gardens used to look like as well as what some of the statues looked like before they disappeared.

They are from the James Gray Collection at www.regencysociety.org.

The Argus's statue hunt has been launched together with the Royal Society of Arts, which wants to use the two empty plinths in Victoria Gardens for new public artworks.

What do you think about the idea of new public art in Victoria Gardens? Can you tell us anything about the original statues' disappearance? Let us know by leaving your comments below.